PGNC Insect and Arachnid Song Playlist #1

Photo by Bob Steventon/bstevent@unis
  • “Flight of the Bumblebee” – Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, opera: The Tale of Tsar Saltan (1900)
  • “La Cucaracha” – Louis Armstrong, The Deca Singles 1935-1946 (song recorded 1936)
  • “Teency Weency Spider” – Pete Seeger, Birds, Beasts, Bugs and Little Fishes (1955)
  • “I Know an Old Lady (Who Swallowed a Fly)” – Pete Seeger, Birds, Beasts, Bugs and Little Fishes (1955)
  • “The Boll Weevil Song” – Brook Benton, single (1963) [or Tex Ritter version]
  • “Fly Like a Butterfly, Sting Like a Bee” – BigBang, Poetic Terrorism (2005)
  • “Boris the Spider” – The Who, A Quick One (1966)
  • “Bee-Sting” – The Wombats, Beautiful People Will Ruin Your Life (2018)
  • “Insect Hospital” – They Might Be Giants, Nanobots (2013)
  • “Mosquito Moan” – Blind Lemon Jefferson, released on 78 rpm (1930)
  • “The Black Fly Song” – Bill Staines, Just Play One Tune More (1977)
  • “Butterfly” – Crazy Town, The Gift of Game (1999)
  • “Catchin’ Grasshoppers” – Kenny Rogers, Life is Like a Song (2023)
  • “Day of the Locusts” – Bob Dylan, New Morning (1970)
  • “Dragonfly” – Ziggy Marley, Dragonfly (2003)
  • “Dragonfly” – Inn Echo, Hemispheres (2023)
  • “Fireflies” – Owl City, Ocean Eyes (2009)
  • “Cicadas and Crickets and Owls… Oh My!” – Country Joe MacDonald & Bernie Krause, Natural Imperfections (2005)